Posts in Category ‘Webworkertools’

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Pingdom, my favourite service for monitoring my servers, released a new tool yesterday that saves you from becoming a click monkey: Transaction Monitor.

What it does is accessing your webpage, clicking links, filling out forms and checking on the results (URL, Status Codes, etc.). I just implemented it for checking all of our stores checkout processes once a day.
Setting up is straigt forward and easy (as long as you have a check left in your Pingdom account). The Check editor offers context sensitive suggestions on actions and validations and has instant feedback on how long it took to perform the action and wether it was successful or not.

So with the Transaction Monitor annyoing repetitive task can be automated and thanks to that performed even more often as when executed manually.

For some inexplicable reason however there is an artificial limit on the number of steps you can add to a check which is currently 25 and limits the usefulness unnecessarily.

I’m a huge fan of Microsoft’s Consolas font, so this is my default in both Sublime Text 2 and iTerm 2. The font size looks a little bit to large, but Consolas in 15pt is similar to Monaco in 13pt.
As Martin I hate scrolling horizontally and like my lines highlighted, however, I prefer tabs over spaces when it comes to indentation. The line padding is taken from Martin, it makes things way mare readable.

There are no color scheme settings in my config. As most Sublime Text 2 users I was a long-time Textmate user before and loved their Twilight theme (also on a dark background). However, I instantly fell in love with Sublime’s default Monokai theme and I’m still happy with it.

And I’m pretty happy I finally had the chance to play with Lea Verou’s great prism.js for this post.

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Remote debugging finally comes built into Mac OS and iOS 6. All you need is Safari 6 (which is, as the windows version of Safari was discontinued silently, only available on Mac OS) and the afore mentioned iOS 6.

If not done so already you have to turn on the Developer menu in the safari settings.

On the device, go to ‘Settings’ – ‘Safari’ – ‘Advanced’ and turn on ‘Web Inspector’ (which was translated to ‘Webinformationen’ in german).

Once you connect your device thru USB it shows up with it’s name in the Developer menu and you can start debugging sites opened in Safari or chrome-less web apps. This also works with pages opened in the simulator and will make tools like iWebInspector obsolete. However, as it only works on iOS, there is still a gap when it comes to debugging on android devices which, so there is still a place for Adobe Shadow out there.

Update: The ink’s not yet dry on this post as Adobe discontinued Shadow and replaced it with Edge Inspect, which is part of the Creative Cloud and therefore no longer free.